February 14, 2007: Looking Southeast from Lafayette and Great Jones
I've just reread Barthes' Camera Lucida, and I've added some excerpts to my photography quotations page. My favorite: "'The necessary condition for an image is sight,' Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.'"
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Nice one. I love all the slightly different colors of light.
And I thought this was in Philly for a second with that old-looking building and the Agua tall hand in the center of the pic.
I just reread 'Camera' too. It is packed with juicy thoughts. Can't help but wonder what he would have said about digital. The photo-chemical process as the origin of photography...
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